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These side-by-side images show the striking similarities between Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic 1963 March on Washington and the 2020 March on Washington led by his son and Rev. Al Sharpton on Friday.
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Japanese photographer Chino Otsuka’s took old photos from her childhood and put pictures of her present self in them, creating lovely double self-portraits.
her mind >>>>>>>>
DIY Plastic Bottle Bell Jar Cloche from Seeing Things
Updated Link 2019 - this is a real link that takes you to the original tutorial on the WayBack Machine.
This is not my tutorial, but screenshots from the WayBack Machine.
I wanted to add a set of bell jars to my apothecary this year but was so disappointed with the high prices being charged at various stores. I really wanted more than just one which made a collection of jars very cost prohibitive. After laying awake one night (doesn’t take much to keep me up) I came up with the “poor man’s” rendition of a bell jar. I’m pretty happy with the way they turned out! By the way a “real” bell jar is a piece of laboratory equipment used for creating air-less vacuums. Usually it is the shape of a bell, and can be manufactured from a variety of materials such as glass, plastic and metal. The Victorians were particularly fond of using bell jars to display their most cherished possessions. If you would like to make your own here is what you’ll need. (Please note: costs quoted reflect CDN $)
Instructions Remove Label/Clean Bottle Remove label and sticky residue using the following method:
pull as much of the label off as possible
fill bottle with hot tap water, but not hot enough to burn fingers.
let the bottle/water stand for 5-10 minutes or until the glue begins to soften.
roll remaining bits of label off with fingers.
using Goo Gone and a cotton ball remove the glue residue.
use nail polish remover to remove the inked date stamp from wherever it appears on the bottle.
empty the water from the bottle, wash outside with warm soapy water, dry completely.
Remove Bottom of Bottle
Please use caution in the following steps to avoid personal injury! Using a craft knife cut the bottom section of the bottle off by following the raised line. Using scissors cut around the bottom edge evening it out. Place the bottle on the cut edge, trim any areas that cause the bottle to shift in a crooked fashion. Continue trimming until the bottle standscorrectly (as perfectly upright as possible). Clean and dry the inside of the bottle.
Remove Top of Bottle Using a mini-hobby saw or another cutting instrument appropriate for the job, cut the threads at the top of the bottle off as shown in the photo.
Attach Bubble Ball Topper Squeeze a bead of Glossy Accents around the cut rim of the bottle.Gently attach a bubble ball by positioning it over the glue line and pressing down lightly. Leave to dry completely.
Apply Foam Core Base Measure the diameter of the cut edge of the bottle. Add 1/2” to this measurement. Using a compass draw two circles on the foam board matching the calculated measurement. Mine came in at 5” (12.8cm). Glue the two circles together. Cover the cut edges of the foam core with black ribbon, use white glue or tack in place with black wire bent in a “u” shape and pushed into the foam.
Prepare Styrofoam Stand The following step will depend on what you plan to put inside the bell jar. If you require a stand cut a piece of Styrofoam that will fit inside the jar with enough room around it to add moss and still be able to comfortably replace the bell jar over it. Glue the stand in place then cover with moss. Keep moss in place by pushing small pieces of wire bent in “u” shapes into the Styrofoam. Creepy cloth may also be used to cover the base.
Decorate Inside of Jar Fill your bell jar with your favorite things. Trek outside for a few “found” objects. How about a few creepy Halloween creatures or tell a story with purchased or created miniatures. Have fun!! Enjoy!
DIY Skull Spoon or Sugar Spoon of Death
I’ve seen lots of Gift Guides by bloggers. Which category would a Sugar Spoon of Death fall into?
You need a cheap stainless steel spoon (not silver plated - just stainless steel) and a jewelers’ saw (pretty cheap - about $10).
Tip: If you’ve made silver jewelry, you already use or know about jewelers saws. From personal experience, be patient and kind to your saw or you will end up breaking many blades.
This is a jewelers saw, and I wanted to include a picture of it being used below:
To do the eyes, drill a small hole, unhook the jewelers’ saw blade and string the blade through the eye socket, hook the blade back on to the saw, and you are good to go.
See the DIY Skull Spoon Tutorial from Instructables User Bloodbeard here.
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It’s actually much worse then this. All you need to do is to look at their imdb pages to see that Adele Lim has more credits and experience under her belt then Chiarelli .This is VERY important because the usual excuse when there is a massive difference in salary is that one party is more experience then the other and this is natural to pay them more. And yet here she is the one with more experience and yet with a drastically lower cut. This is both racial and gender discrimination and there is absolutely and utterly no excuse
Folks, the entire point of this blog is to call out bigotry when it’s subtle - whether it’s cloaked in niceities or expressed as fake concern. If you’re following us expecting us to tow the typical political narratives you may be disappointed. We’re going to call out bullshit no matter which “side” it comes from. True activism and progressivism comes from kindness and concern for the oppressed and it must be based on consistency and honesty. Hypocrisy only strengthens arguments by hateful idiots and weakens progressivism. The foundation of the progressive movement are the millions of folks with deep kindness and concern for others, who only want to help (and it is for those people that we keep this blog going) - but at times there is worrying levels of naivite that makes the movement prone to getting co-opted and exploited by people with a divisive agenda. These people prey on your naivite. Not all enemies of justice are on the “other side”. Some are right there, next to you, using you. If you aren’t sure about something, research it before following the herd. We will keep calling shit out no matter how much it might baffle some. Fighting for the truth has never been easy.
This is so important and so very true. Liberal racism is so dangerous because it gets a pass. We shouldn’t ignore it because of some people’s hurt feelings.
Exactly. That kind of racism becomes normalized.
“shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will”
Democrats were traditionally the former but given how they’ve treated Tulsi and her religion they might as well be the latter.
LGBT lessons in schools cause outrage
Morgan: “so saying that homosexuality is sinful and wrong, and shouldn’t be happening, is not homophobic?”
Hussein: “of course not! Because it’s not inciting violence and hatred”
The mental fucking gymnastics.
Shakeel Afsar, organizer of the anti-LGBT protests at the school: “the Muslim parents are feeling that the LGBT community has become intolerant towards them”.
What the actual fuck?
A more in depth look into this story.
Have to say it’s sad to see those innocent kids having to stand alongside their parents, seeing all the media attention on them, not knowing what’s going on.
Hundreds of pupils who go to Anderton Park school in Birmingham did not attend because of a protest against lessons which teach same-sex rel
“You don’t get to pick and choose what equality you can and can’t have.”
A great reply by a queer Muslim follower:
“People think that Muslims, for example, are inherently homophobic. That kind of rhetoric doesn’t help me or my queer Muslim siblings. It makes life harder for me, and I have to face the difficulties of dealing with homophobia in Muslim spaces and Islamophobia in LGBT spaces. As for calling homophobia from Muslims out, unless you go “Islam is such a homophobic religion” or “Muslims are all vile homophobes no one should be Muslim” or “Muslims are doing horrible stuff to LGBT people so let’s bomb them” which are actual sentiments I have heard, you’re NOT Islamophobic for calling it out. We queer Muslims need you to do it, just do it without throwing all of us under the bus. In fact, let us lead the conversation….So, for example, if a homophobic Imam makes some homophobic comments, call it out and ban him from giving a speech at your venue…Muslims who support LGBT rights may have to be quiet about it in countries where those laws are still there.“
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Cinco de Mayo is about to start, so let's make some things clear:
Hello there! Diego here! (That… that’s seriously my name.) As some of you may know, I am of Mexican origin, and I would like to make a few things clear about May 5th you may or may not be aware about.
1. Cinco de Mayo is NOT the date of the Independence of Mexico.
That’s right! Mexico celebrates its independence in September 16th, or more likely, the night of September 15th, when traditionally they make the traditional Grito de Independencia by midnight, which is a reenactment of the legend of the night revolutionary priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla called mass in 1810 for the people to rebel against the Spanish government.
“Cinco de Mayo” also known as “La Batalla de Puebla” (The Battle of Puebla) is a commemoration of a victory in the battle against French invaders that arrived from the port of the state of Veracruz. Albeit not a strategically decisive battle on the war, it is important on national pride as a moment in which a tiny new country without virtually any funds by the time of 1860s defeated such a super powerful army which were the French.
2. “Sombreros”.
Ah yes.
The “sombrero”.
Just to put it straight: Sombrero just means “hat” in Spanish; at least Mexican Spanish. We tend to call sombrero to any kind of hat, that is if we are not using the word “gorro/gorra” alternatively.
The “sombreros” you usually see in every single stereotype you may imagine are based a mixture of the charro outfit and the way poor proletariats would dress around the dawn of the 20th century whom also were an emblem of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. (Another national celebration that goes in November 20th.) Slavery was already illegal in Mexico, but these people were exploited in a disguised system in which the workers were paid (miserably) and all of their expenses would be controlled in stores they were only allowed to spend at; those stores were also owned by the proprietors of the land they worked at.
The stereotype has been so reflected in so many places inside and outside the border it has even been reclaimed by the Mexican people themselves.
“Oh, so is it okay for me to wear one?”
No.
By the way when I mentioned “charros”, I mean a traditional type of horsemen that follow their own set of etiquettes and styles, and it’s also practiced by women who are not only beautiful but also super badass.
3. Maracas.
I SERIOUSLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH MEXICAN STEREOTYPES AND MARACAS TO BE HONEST.
LIKE, THEY ARE USED IN A FEW CULTURES OF MEXICO SUCH AS THE YAQUIS, BUT OTHER THAN THAT IT REALLY DOESN’T HAVE MUCH OF A CULTURAL BACKGROUND FOR MEXICO. ALMOST ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN LATIN AMERICA, BUT NOT MUCH IN MEXICO.
THEY ARE MORE OF A BRAZILIAN THING.EDIT: Actually no, they are not Brazlian at all either.
Much like the sombrero, if you “went to Mexico” (Tijuana, Cancún, Mazatlán, Rocky Point) and they gave you maracas with vivid colors on them, there is absolutely no cultural importance behind it as souvenir of Mexico. Mexicans love to point at, laugh, and exploit the cultural obliviousness of tourists. Especially American tourists.
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*cough*
4. The mustache.
This one is a bit strange, albeit kind of true in some regards.
The mustache is an international symbol of masculinity, and Mexico is a country full of machismo, albeit “caballerosidad” is also one of the qualities in the Mexican etiquette which involves respecting the autonomy and individual identity of women, always approach to a non-violent solution, and a general attitude of politeness to both men and women; that said it is not impossible for a Mexican to be misogynistic as well.
ANYWAY, the mustache is kind of a downhill-snowball stereotype that may have started in just seeing many Mexicans having a mustache, but so do a LOT of American males as well, so uhhhh… it’s a very strange label to pin on Mexicans over all.
5. Tequila.
I actually don’t mind if you drink tequila. You kinda support the economy of my country and it’s an actual cultural thing that I like it when it’s spread around.
Just remember that it is NOT drunk with a worm in it. That is mezcal. Its like tequila’s wilder cousin. And no, it has no mescaline.
6. Other stereotypes.
Sugar skulls are a cool thing, I guess. No, they have absolutely nothing to do with Cinco de Mayo, they are part of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) which is celebrated in November 1st.
“Do not drink the water” is a weird stereotype I have heard. I would not simply recommend you to drink untreated tap water anywhere. Period. We have water purifiers everywhere.
Mexico is what I call a “second world country”. It is not as developed and advanced as the United States, but it IS civilized in a great way we count with continuous technological developments and lots and lots of progressist enthusiasts.
Mexico is not proud of drug trafficking. It’s an extremely serious problem that has the entire country terrorized and I am really exhausted of all the attention they get from dumb Hollywood movies rather than the real Mexico. Do not talk about drugs. Do not talk about narcos. This is a very delicate topic that many people overlook the impact it’s had with Mexican people in their identity. Please.
I persist. Do not, seriously, DO NOT associate Mexican people with drug dealers, drug lords, “narcos”, or any other extension. If you seriously STILL wonder “what the big deal is”, I dare you to Google “narcos” on the image search and look at all the horrible things they do to the innocents. (It’s seriously fucked up and triggering with blood, gore, body horror shit.)
Mexican people have contributed with some groundbreaking contributions to science and technology and the way we are leading our lives.
> Mario J. Molina is a chemist who discovered the causes of ozone depletion in the atmosphere. > Guillermo González Camarena patented the first trichromatic TV color transmitter in 1940. 8 years before Peter Carl Goldmark presented it to CBS and took most of the credit. > Luis Ernesto Miramontes co-developed “the pill”. Props. > Andrés Manuel del Río discovered vanadium in 1801 which is used to strengthen steel further and is applied from bicycles and hardware tools, to dental implants and jet engines.
Yes, Mexicans are actually laid back. No, they are not inherently lazy.
Mexican people are culturally masters of improvisation and creativity, this leads them to engineer creative solutions to everyday problems. Just felt like sharing this fact.
Ok so this is all I have right off the bat, and I wish you a happy Cinco de Mayo. Have fun, get drunk, party on; I don’t care, we don’t care. Just have these things on mind.
TL;DR: Please do not do/say anything racist.
Signal Boosting this because it needs to be said.
also don’t fucking say ‘cinco de drinko’ la batalla de puebla is super important. france had supposedly the best army in the world, and mexico were nobodies. many countries didn’t know anything about us, and we won a battle that seemed impossible. it’s part of our history. not a fucked up excuse for you to get drunk.
Two weeks ago, Tulsi Gabbard informally announced her presidential run for 2020. News of the election, which will not happen for another 22 months, is dominating the headlines. Democrats are, rightfully, weighing their candidates on a strict scale by poring over past records, remarks, and affiliations. But some, more than others, are weighed on a far harsher scale — a scale replete with hyperbole and half-truths.
Not 24 hours after Gabbard announced her run, her past homophobic statements have been released in a myriad of heated articles. Rolling Stone is calling for her campaign to be finished before it has even started. Huffington Post is claiming that her bid is “dead on arrival”, and that she appears to have no solid constituency in the Democratic Party. A widely shared article from Paste Magazine accuses her of being devoted to a “perpetuation of extremist, fringe ideology.” A range of late night hosts, such as Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, and Samantha Bee, have declared that Gabbard has no chance of becoming the Democratic nominee. What was originally a cause for strong concern has evolved into a smear campaign—full of exaggerated claims, faux outrage, and a willful obfuscation of the truth.
A CNN article by Andrew Kaczynski was widely shared on social media shortly after her run. The opening paragraph included this line–
“Her past views and activism in opposition to LGBT rights in the late 90s and early 2000s, which put her out of step with most of the Democratic Party at the time, have come under more intense scrutiny since her announcement.”
This single line, contained in one of the most widely shared articles on Gabbard’s homophobic past, is simply not true. And it contains a sentiment that is either naively accepted or outright ignored by the person who propagates it.
Democrats, widely, did not support same-sex marriage in the 90s and early 2000s. In 1996, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)—a federal law that defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman—was supported by 32 Democratic Senators and opposed by only 14 before it was signed into law by Bill Clinton. In the House, DOMA was also supported by a steep majority of Democratic Representatives. Only 40% of Democratic Americans supported same sex marriage in 2004. Hillary Clinton, in 2004, voiced support on the Senate floor for marriage to be between one man and one woman.
Tulsi Gabbard was not out of step with the Democratic Party in 2004. She, instead, took a more aggressive stance on a belief that was already shared by the majority of Democratic politicians and constituents.
Today, Gabbard is an ally of the LGBT community. She has a 100% record in Congress for pro-LGBT legislation, and has co-sponsored a plethora of bills for LGBT rights. In 2011, eight years ago, she wrote of her support for same-sex marriage and her promise to repeal DOMA. In the same year, only 15 Senators openly supported gay marriage. Not only has Gabbard evolved on the issue, she has evolved before most prominent Democrats have. And these facts are being brushed aside by the current media narrative.
Three issues must be addressed—Gabbard’s current support of the LGBT community, the tour in Iraq which caused her to transition her beliefs, and the selective outrage of the left for condemning her teenage views when many other Democratic politicians have evolved at the same, or slower, pace than she has.
An Ally for the LGBT community
Tulsi Gabbard has been endorsed year after year by the Human Rights Campaign, the largest advocate in the country for the LGBT community, and she has a 100% rating from them on the legislature from Congress. She is a member of the Congressional LGBT Caucus, and has advocated for LGBT housing and privacy rights, as well as condemning harassment in schools. She states the following on her campaign website.
“I believe that equal treatment and opportunity are fundamental rights for all Americans. Discrimination on the basis of national origin, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, gender, or race undermines core American principles of respect and individual freedom. We have an obligation to fight against discrimination, whatever the form. I will continue to work with partners at the federal, state, and local level to ensure all individuals are treated equally under the law regardless of race, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, and gender identity.”
She has also cosponsored the following bills: HR 197 (Repealing of the Defense of Marriage Act), HR 3185 (The Equality Act), HR 208 (the Equality For All Resolution), HR 1199 (The Safe Schools Improvement Act), HR 549 (Designating June 26th as LGBT Equality Day), HR 1755 (the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013), HR 2421 (the Military Spouses Equal Treatment Act), and HR 2839 (the Restore Honor to Service Members Act).
The Transition
Tulsi Gabbard was born in Leloaloa, America Samoa. She was home schooled for most of her childhood, except for the two years she spent at an all-girls academy in the Philippines. While speaking to a small audience in New Hampshire last month, she admitted that she grew up in a ‘conservative household’, which was diverse in their views and faith.“I held views growing up that I no longer hold,” she asserted, when questioned on her same-sex marriage views.
In the video apology she recorded on January 17th, Gabbard explained a little more on how growing up with her father influenced her beliefs. “While many Americans may relate to growing up in a conservative home, my story is a little different because my father was very outspoken,” she stated, “He was an activist who was fighting against gay rights and marriage equality in Hawaii—and at that time, I forcefully defended him. But over the years, I formed my own opinions based on my life experience that changed my views—at a personal level in having aloha, love, for all people, and ensuring that every American, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, is treated equally under the law.”
Her father, Mike Gabbard, was Hawaii’s leading opponent of the gay-rights movement. He worked with The Alliance for Traditional Marriage, a political action committee that opposed pro-LGBT lawmakers and laws. The PAC spent more than $100,000 to pass an amendment in 1998 that gave Hawaii the state legislature power to “reserve marriage for opposite sex couples”. The amendment passed.
In an interview with Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Gabbard admitted to working with her father at the age of seventeen in order to pass the amendment. “Working with my father, Mike Gabbard, and others to pass a constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage, I learned that real leaders are willing to make personal sacrifices for the common good,” she said.
In 2000, Gabbard’s mother, Carol Gabbard, won a seat on the State Board of Education in 2000. But when gay rights activists opposed her bid, Tulsi attacked them back in a press release from The Alliance of Traditional Marriage. “This war of deception and hatred against my mom is being waged by homosexual activists because they know, that if elected, she will not allow them to force their values down the throats of the children in our schools.” she stated. She was nineteen years old at the time.
Gabbard then ran for state legislature in 2002, becoming a state representative for Hawaii at the age of 21. Gabbard, now, explains that she and her father had entirely separate political lives during her time as a state representative. “He was talking potholes and trash and sewage, and I was talking about education and environment and other issues,” she stated to The New Yorker. But she continued to harbor anti-gay beliefs. In 2004, she stated that “the people of Hawaii…have already made overwhelmingly clear our position on this issue,” and that “As Democrats we should be representing the views of the people, not a small number of homosexual extremists.”
That same year, Gabbard volunteered to deploy for a 12 month tour to Iraq, after having enlisted in the Hawaii National Guard the year before. She served as a medical-operations specialist on a base in the Sunni Triangle. Her time in Iraq was an eye-opening ordeal for her, and she consistently refers to this time when discussing the big shift in her social values. While observing the oppressive regime of the government she was deployed in, she came to her own revelations on the role of a government as a mediator on social issues, and what that could mean in the United States. In December of 2018, she spoke candidly about the change of heart that presided over her during her time in Iraq.
“Both as an American and as a woman, I saw first-hand the destructive effect of having governments who act as moral arbiters for their people. And that caused me to really deeply reflect, and be introspective on the values and beliefs that I had grown up with.”
In a personal essay she wrote in 2011, eight years ago, she explained this soul-searching further. “I realized that a constitutional amendment defining marriage—even the one I and most Hawaii voters had supported—was anathema to the personal freedom we enjoy in America. And so my positions evolved…I can promise Hawai'i that when I get to Washington I will fight any efforts to undermine our reproductive freedom, and I will fight for the repeal of DOMA.”
On January 17th, Gabbard released a video of her apology. It wasn’t her first apology to the LGBT community (she had also apologized in 2012 to the Hawaii LGBT caucus), and it may not be her last. “I know that LGBTQ+ people still struggle, are still facing discrimination, are still facing abuse and still fear that their hard-won rights are going to be taken away by people who hold views like I used to. That cannot happen, because every single American deserves to be treated equally—by their fellow Americans and under the law… When we deny LGBTQ+ people the basic rights that exist for every American, we are denying their humanity—denying that they are equal. We are also creating a dangerous environment that breeds discrimination and violence… I regret the role I played in causing such pain, and I remain committed to fighting for LGBTQ+ equality.”
Mike Gabbard, Tulsi’s father, has also commented on the extreme anti-gay environment his daughter grew up in. “I’d always known that as a child, Tulsi had been deeply affected by the conflict between myself and the gay community. But after seeing her video the other day, what she said broke my heart. I never realized how much trauma I put her through because of my overly aggressive advocacy for traditional marriage.”
A Dramatic Shift
I am a member of the LGBT community. In 2004, when Gabbard attacked gay rights activists as ‘homosexual extremists’, I was twelve years old in middle school. During this time, I harbored my own homophobic views. When a classmate of mine was rumored to be gay, I joined my peers in making cruel remarks about him. We sang scathing songs about a teacher we suspected to be a lesbian, and laughed at magazine covers that chronicled the struggles of gay couples in California. We considered the gay community to be an extreme fringe group, a faction of sexual outcasts that had nothing in common with us. Very few of us knew of any gay family members, or gay friends. The only exposure I had to them was clips on the news, as a handful of same-sex couples married in San Francisco before their licenses were revoked. It was something that was happening out there.
None of us could put a face on them. None of us knew their fears, woes, and despair. None of us considered what it would be like to be born that way, because we didn’t believe one could be born that way. Our fixation was on their actions rather than their humanity. And thus, we believed that they did not deserve our consideration.
In the progressive lens of 2019, it’s easy for some of us to gloss over what 2004 was like. It is easy for some of us to pretend that we have always been more accepting, informed, and tolerant than we ever truly were. Most people, truly, do not remember how bleak of a time the early 2000s was for the LGBT community. They did not have to walk through it in the skin of a gay person.
In 2004, only one state had legalized gay marriage—Massachusetts. 31% of Americans approved of same sex marriage, while 60% opposed it. (This statistic was nearly reversed by 2017, with 62% of Americans being in favor of gay marriage, and 32% being opposed to it). 60% of Americans, in 2004, were in favor of a Constitutional Amendment that would ban same sex marriage entirely. One year before, in 2003, simply having gay sex was still illegal in 13 states.
While these statistics paint a picture of how same-sex marriage was widely condemned in the early 2000s, the perception of gay people — which numbers can’t back up — was more complicated. It had to do with a lack of awareness of the struggles gay people faced. It had to do with fierce condemnations in church halls and seething taunts in popular music. It had to do with the way my scandalized friends cloistered together when we learned that a boy in our summer camp ‘had two moms’, and how we avoided speaking to him from then on. It had to do with the way my youth group leaders — kind, open minded adults who voted for John Kerry — taught us tolerance and compassion, but remained tight-lipped on LGBT issues. It had to do with the complete lack of gay characters in movies and on TV. It had to do with sitting down and watching Finding Nemo with my friends, and hearing the adults in the kitchen lamenting how ‘that Ellen’ played the voice of Dori.
And I lived in a fairly liberal town, and attended a fairly liberal school.
With a home schooled childhood that was, reportedly, as conservative as the one that Tulsi Gabbard grew up in, her past homophobic views come as no surprise.
I do not say these things to justify homophobia in the early 2000s. There are some in the LGBT community who will, despite Gabbard’s 100% record on LGBT rights in Congress and her commitment to change, still feel betrayed by her words and actions in the past. Those feelings are valid.
I say this because those in the LGBT community who lived through the early 2000s truly know how far we have come in just a couple short decades. We understand the leap from then to now, and just how significant that distance is.
We watched family members and friends grapple with their own prejudice before learning acceptance. We watched brave advocates speak. We watched as Ellen continued to dance, as Harvey Milk was immortalized in an Oscar nominated film, and as Obama assured LGBT youth in a televised speech that it gets better. We watched as Americans from every corner of the nation came together to mourn those killed in the Pulse nightclub attack. We needed these allies and advocates then, and we still need them today.
These same allies came to our defense last week when they attacked Rep. Gabbard—well meaning allies who believe that even homophobia from the past deserves no place in our highest offices. And as these allies continue to assert that past homophobia is not who we are as a progressive, forward thinking country, something else strikes me.
That this, truly, is not who we are.
We in the LGBT community owe our progress—the progress that allows us to live with an ever-increasing degree of equality and freedom—to the firm belief that people can change; the belief that prejudice is not hardwired in any of us. We owe our progress to acceptance—not only to the increased acceptance of ourselves, but to the acceptance of the good-hearted but ill-informed people who, slowly, have battled their own negative judgments.
We need to allow people to change. We need to firmly, but kindly, educate and allow people to evolve their beliefs. And we need to forgive those who eventually do.
One word encapsulates this commitment more than anything, a word that happens to be Tulsi Gabbard’s personal mantra. Aloha.
Aloha means to embrace love, not hate. It means to approach each other with an open heart. It means to come together with respect, care, love, and a recognition that we are all connected. Aloha teaches us to find common ground, and that we are all neighbors in the country we call home.
Perhaps in 2019, we need less vindication and more aloha. God knows we could use more of it in this divisive time.
Source: https://medium.com/@kathrynrosefisher/im-lgbt-here-s-where-the-media-is-wrong-on-tulsi-gabbard-bb0fde008d16
When people brought up the things the white Christian lady said, the Democrats said it was a smear campaign to target her. When people brought up the things the dark-skinned Hindu lady said, the Democrats said she needed to end her campaign.
Gee, I’m sure there’s a reason for this discrepancy, but what could it possibly be?
[id: tweet by buffalocialism reading “if you have so many prisoners that you have to deny them the right to vote because they would significantly impact election results, the main substantive problem is that you live in a police state”]
rip Florida man
Woo boy. That’s…um, well it’s a choice, huh?
Homes are being wiped off the map so big oil can keep making billions.
Feel free to report @leblonipanema for hate speech.
Homes are being wiped off the map so big oil can keep making billions.
The less you contributed to global warming, the more you suffer.
Why some Asian accents swap Ls and Rs in English
A great introduction to L, R, and related sounds in English, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Cantonese from Vox:
One of the most persistent and well-studied foreign-accent features is a lack of L/R contrast among native Japanese speakers learning English. It’s so well-known that American soldiers in World War II were reportedly told to use code words like “lallapalooza” to distinguish Japanese spies from Chinese allies.
But American movies and TV shows have applied this linguistic stereotype to Korean and Chinese characters too, like Kim Jong Il in Team America: World Police, or Chinese restaurant employees singing “fa ra ra ra ra” in A Christmas Story. The accent feature has been a tool for racist portrayals of Asians in media, where white or Asian-American actors were directed to play Asian characters with a heavy, often inaccurate accent.
But a foreign accent is just a phonological hybrid of two languages, and by listening carefully, you can learn some interesting things about linguistics. In this episode of Vox Observatory, we take a look at Japanese, Korean, and Chinese languages and how each affects the pronunciation of Ls and Rs for English-language learners.
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